Poor Governor Hutchinson. His son is a self- professed Progressive and a union organizer

I just really relish the hell out of this. Big time anti-labor, anti-Union repub governor of a very hostile to labor state, has a Progressive son who is a Union organizer.

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Asa Hutchinson knows it's unfair to broadly apply such a caricature to all in the labor movement. His own son, Seth, is a lead organizer for the Texas state employees union. He's been a progressive since college days. Hutchinson told me once, in acknowledging his son's different political bent, that he was proud of him. He should be.

Seth Hutchinson wrote a perceptive piece in 2010, when unions were backing Bill Halter for U.S. Senate and getting cold receptions from Sens. Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln. He said:

"... the South really must be organized if the United States is to reverse its decade's long trend of fleecing the working and middle classes. And speaking as a union organizer working in Texas, I absolutely know that it is at least possible to build the labor movement in the South if only the resources are there to do it. It must be a long-term project though, or else unions will be continually portrayed as something removed from the interests of voters instead of the voice of American workers. "

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http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/arkansas-republicans-labor-baiting-lives/Content?oid=3246741

Link to Seth's piece:

https://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/arkansas-from-politics-to-organizing/